A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance. Senate Majority Leader ...
19 Nov 2008
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James replaced Kobe Bryant on Tuesday as the youngest player in NBA history to score 11,000 points. James (23 years, 323 days) reached the plateau with a wide-open jump shot set up by a great crossover dribble ...
19 Nov 2008
But it's not too late to conclude what other companies can learn from the return of Yang, who cofounded Yahoo in 1994, and how he fumbled a deal with Google while trying to parry a takeover offer from Microsoft. 1) Founders flounder . We can think of ...
19 Nov 2008
Oil prices dropped on Wednesday, with Brent crude falling close to $US50 a barrel, as weak energy demand and the global credit crunch pressured the market. On the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), light sweet crude for December delivery slipped ...
19 Nov 2008
John McCain's campaign -- and its surrogates -- have been pressing one argument about Barack Obama, and his foreign policy, hard this week. By making major announcements about his plans for Afghanistan and Iraq before he has made his trip to those ...
19 Nov 2008
In the wake of the killing of Marcelo Lucero, communities are confronting hard questions on race relations, anti-immigrant sentiment and violence. In this forum, we've brought together a panel of advocates and experts to help encourage dialogue about ...
19 Nov 2008
Hard-hitting chums The tide had just started to fall, and big, hook-jawed, olive-and-magenta fish leaped from Kennedy Creek.
20 Nov 2008
A few days ago we were lucky enough to visit Seagate's Springtown, Ireland factory, where it manufactures 80% of its read/write heads. We'll show you some of what we saw there and explain how a hard drive head comes to be.
20 Nov 2008
Although China's trade figures look good so far, the country has to get adapted to the increasingly changing and challenging world market environment in the days to come before the world economy hit hard by the global financial turmoil can recover. Prof. Zhao Zhongxiu, Dean of School of International Trade and Economics, Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics, gave that ...
20 Nov 2008
Get a bunch of longhairs together, throw out the names of a few heavy bands, and you’ll have yourself a vigorous debate on what constitutes real, bona fide “hard rock.” For some diehards, Puddle of Mudd — who are playing the Toledo Civic Theatre tomorrow — wouldn’t quite make the tough guy, hard rock grade. But that’s OK. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion — and lead singer Wes Scantlin has a ...
20 Nov 2008
China's recycling industry once brought improbable prosperity to hundreds of junkmen. That was before the global slowdown
19 Nov 2008
The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will face "a very hard year" in 2009, a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) official said Wednesday. "The main factors that will affect the economy in this region are the high prices of food and power, the financial crisis and the climate change," Rebeca Grynspan, the UNDP director for Latin America and the Caribbean, told a press conference ...
19 Nov 2008
Angelina says breastfeeding twins is hard. ... Recent Posts. Angelina says breastfeeding twins is hard · Six months · 6 months · Speaking of Babywearing · More babycarriers I have loved ...
19 Nov 2008
Farley is a hard man and unappreciative. After a brief physical skirmish that neither man won, Andy decides to hit the trail and leave it all behind. Bethel isn’t leaving and Andy can’t put up with Farley anymore. ...
19 Nov 2008
Which is true, but it's hard to see why the same doesn't apply to Freeview. Also, if you shell out for a new TV and you don't budget for a digital receiver, you're a mug. If you're spending the money on the TV, you might as well get the ...
19 Nov 2008
New York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today ...
19 Nov 2008
Political Wisdom: Eric Holder, Going Down Hard on the Right. Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib. However well it might go down within Democratic circles, President-elect ...
19 Nov 2008
November 19th, 2008 9:08am. It’s Hard To Take It Easy. Takka Takka “Everybody Say”. If the music of “Everybody Say” had to be translated into punctuation, it’d be something like a long set of ellipsis contained within parentheses. ...
19 Nov 2008